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goings-on

goings-on noun: occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.

Noun

goings-on pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.
    • She sent a long letter detailing all the recent goings-on in her life.
    • Enkidu is appalled at such goings-on and rises immediately to go to Uruk.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191

goings-on meaning in Malayalam

goings-on in Malayalam

happenings, events, affairs
നടക്കുന്ന കാര്യങ്ങൾ, വിചിത്രസംഭവങ്ങൾ, വിശേഷങ്ങൾ, വിശേഷസംഗതികൾ, പുതിയ സംഭവവികാസങ്ങൾ, വിശേഷം

Examples of goings-on in a sentence

  • Phoenix's finest watch the goings-on with jaws agape.1996 July, Bruce Sterling, “Is Phoenix Burning”, in Wired, →ISSN:
  • The_Donald wasn’t a place to debate the presidential election, or discuss the latest goings-on with their preferred candidate.2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2021:

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Forms of goings-on

alternative formgoingson
alternative formgoing-ons

Questions about goings-on

What does goings-on mean?
Goings-on means occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.
What is goings-on in Malayalam?
Goings-on in Malayalam is നടക്കുന്ന കാര്യങ്ങൾ, വിചിത്രസംഭവങ്ങൾ, വിശേഷങ്ങൾ. See Goings-on meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use goings-on in a sentence?
Phoenix's finest watch the goings-on with jaws agape.
What part of speech is goings-on?
Goings-on is a noun.

Words near goings-on in the dictionary

  1. going-tos
  2. goingover
  3. goings
  4. goings on
  5. goings over
  6. goings-on
  7. goings-over
  8. Goins
  9. Goinses
  10. Goirle
  11. goit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goings-on (page history and authors); goings-on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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